IRAQ: Chemical weapons, WHAT chemical weapons?

You mean the ones left in Iraq that ISIS appears to have used against the Kurds?

FOX NewsDisturbing new photos of ethnic Kurds killed by Islamic State fighters are stoking fears the terrorist army may be using chemical weapons seized from Saddam Hussein’s old arsenals, according to a Middle East watchdog.

NY Times From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule. In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavilyredacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The pictures (below), obtained by the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), show the bodies of Syrian Kurds who appear to have been gassed by ISIS in the besieged Kobani region this July. That fighting came just one month after Islamic State forces surged through the once-notorious Muthanna compound in Iraq, the massive base where Hussein began producing chemical weapons in the 1980s, which he used to kill thousands of Kurds in Halabja in northern Iraq in 1988.

Jonathan Spyer, editor of the MERIA Journal, told FoxNews.com that experts believe the Kurds were slaughtered in July with what “appears to be a case of mustard gas or some kind of blistering agent.”

“It is fairly concerning that, if the pictures are genuine — and I have no reason to believe they are not — then this [use of chemical weapons] is looking clearer and clearer,” Spyer said.

The images of the dead Syrian Kurds show bodies with large areas of white, blistered skin apparently having been burned away. Nisan Ahmed, the Kurdish authority health minister, told Spyer that, “burns and white spots on the bodies of the dead [indicated] the use of chemicals which led to death without any visible wounds or external bleeding.”

Experts believe the chemical weapons were used on July 12, in the village of Avidko, close to Kobani, the Kurdish town on the Turkish border that is now the scene of fierce fighting between Kurds and Islamic State forces.

If Islamic State fighters did indeed gain chemical weapons in Muthanna, it would corroborate a 2007 CIA report that confirmed their presence there. That report was cited when, in June, Islamic State fighters captured the Muthanna facility from Iraqi soldiers and allegedly seized a cache of chemical weapons, including more than 2,500 degraded chemical rockets contaminated with deadly mustard gas.

But State Department officials said weeks later that they did not believe anything there could be used for warfare. “We do not believe that the complex contains [chemical weapons] materials of military value, and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

If Islamic State has chemical weapons, they also could have obtained them in Syria, where embattled President Bashar Assad has several factories for making deadly chemical weapons, despite pledging to get rid of them under pressure from the West. The group could even have produced the weapons themselves, using commercially-available ingredients, according to Ryan Mauro, a terrorism analyst for The Clarion Project, a New York research institute.

But Mauro noted that, while use of chemical weapons can have tremendous shock value, conventional weapons are every bit as deadly.

“The only difference is how the world and international media reacts to chemical weapons with shock and outrage, while stories of greater damage with conventional weapons have become so common that their usage is no longer considered ‘news,'” Mauro said.

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Our policy on nuclear & chemical weapons has always been “No first use, however the United States reserves the right to respond in kind to the use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons by a foreign adversary.” Since it’s pretty much confirmed that ISIS is using chemical weapons we have all the justification we need to use chem or nukes on them. That’s why we say God forbid I ever get to be in charge b/c I would immediately authorize the use of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons. Since I know how they work, how to determine nuclear fallout decay rates, and how to calculate virtually down to the minute how long radiation will last in a given area following detonation, that makes me a pretty dangerous person to have in charge. I would not hesitate to nuke these subhuman troglodytes straight back to hell.

Chemical weapons? Aren’t those classified as WMDs ? Why shoot ! Every Liberal knows Saddam didn’t have any of those ! Why, if he did, in fact, have any he surely would have given them up during the two years or so that the brave and influential United Nations told him to. The U.N. intrepid inspectors would surely have found them in their “in depth” searches.
How about it, Libs ? ?

Don’t forget IS is being backed by ex-Saddam Hussein (Sunni) militairy. Al-Douri, one of the highest ranking officers under Saddam Hussein was never captured. He is likely to have helped IS getting their hands on these chemicals. Al-Douri is still on the loose with a huge price on his head, and my guess is he’s now with IS. He’s of great value to them.

Read this this morning on ace…sorry, don’t have the specific URL within his website but it’s a wonderful and *complete* takedown of the lies from the Democrats and their Narrative on the original cause of going after Saddam for WMDs.

I *highly* recommend reading it all. Just go to: http://ace.mu.nu/

and then scroll down until you get to this heading:

“Despite What You May Have Read In The Papers, The Iraq War Was Not About An Active Weapons Program
—Gabriel Malor”

Get yourselves informed. It’s the best weapon.

(BTW, Ace is a Libertarian of sorts, but is certainly clear-headed about Islam, and many other things, among them, the Democrat lies on Ebola and the Left in general.)

I’ve been saying this all along, there’s plenty of evidence most of it was spirited over the border into Syria, but still we get the tired old BS “We were taken to war on a lie!”

When will the lie end? And talking of lies, obfuscation and plain ‘nursery grade bullshit’ I see the Kenyan muslim is lying his head off again re the ebola crisis; how can even the blacks take this man seriously anymore?

No, Electing BO to the Presidency did. There is no free lunch. It has to be paid by someone. Not vetting the man in the White House properly is why we are watching all the Communists and Socialists invade our government, along with the mohommedists and known Terrorists, organizations.

yeah they did and of course were supposed to believe that the weapons are degraded and not as effective.
i say BS also how come they weren’t destroyed in the first place instead of just being sealed.
of course there’s probably way too many to destroy yet we demand ASSAD do the same